So, removing the el*.jars helped, but then there were alot of "commons*" classes not found, pretty much everything in the jsf-libs directory. So, I cleaned all that up. Finally, it complained about not seeing commons logging, I added that to the deployed libs and I get: Caused by: org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: Invalid class loader hierarchy. You have more than one version of 'org.apache.commons.logging.Log' visible, which is not allowed. at org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getLogConstructor(LogFactoryImpl.java:385) So close, but not quite there yet. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4027338#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...